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The wickedness and punishment of rebellion a sermon preach'd the 26. July S.V. 1685 (being the day of thanksgiveing appointedby His Majestie for the defeat of the rebels) before the right worshipfull the Fellowship of Merchants Adventurers of England residing at Dordrecht / by Aug. Frezer, M.A. of St. Edmunds Hall in Oxford ...
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Frezer, Augustine, b. 1649 or 50.
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Rebellion Nor must our Thanksgiveing only be verbal and with our lips but we are calld upon to set forth the praises of our Great Deliverer with our lives which is the most acceptable way of praising him by endevouring to improve this and all other his Mercies to the Glory of his Great Name the Honour Peace and Benefit of our Soveraign and his Kingdomes and as much as in us lies to the good of all mankind all which we shall be the better enabled to do if we are carefull to transcribe the Duty in the text according to its litteral meaning into our hearts and lives by adding the true fear of God to the Loyalty we professe to have for our King which will afford us these two Inferences by way of Application with which I shall conclude 1. That without Piety or the Fear of God our greatest Professions of Loyalty will be but like a house built by a fool without a faundation upon the sand and the rain descended and the VVinds blew and beat upon it and it fell So long as it was fair Weather and no Wind stirring it seemes the house stood but the first blustering storm blew it over so it is with all those that are disloyal to God and yet pretend Loyalty to their King It is no wonder if they love their King when Loyalty is in fashion and they know it to be their Interest as well as Duty But when ever the scene comes to be alterd and that the Royal Interest declines and they are like to be sufferers by their Loyalty they are the most likely Persons to turn Apostates because their Loyalty had no sure Foundation it was founded upon the sand But where a mans Loyalty proceeds from the Fear of God and a sense of Duty it may fitly be compared to a house built upon a Rock and the rain descended and the flood came and the winds blew and beat upon that house and it fel not for it was founded upon a Rock A truly pious and good man will be Loyal in foul weather as well as in fair Let the Sun shine or let it rain he is still the same He will love honour and stick to his Prince as well in Adversity as Prosperity and he will think it as great an honour to suffer as so raigne with him 2. As Piety and the Fear of God is the only security we can give of our Loyalty it being impossible there can be any firm and unshaken Loyalty without it so without Loyalty it is as certain there can be no true Piety All the noise and fair speeches about Religion that have bin made by Rebels in their Covenants and Declarations and all the outward showes of Godlynesse which they have put on have bin nothing but Hypocrisie and Traps to deceive the simple There have no men ever known so well how to counterfiet a Form of Godlynesse or who have known so little what belong'd to the Power of it VVhile the breath of Religion fills the sails as our late Royal Martyr speaks in his incomparable book Profit is the Compas by which Factious men steer their Course in all seditious Commotions And as the same Eccellent Prince speaks in another place against our late hypocritical Reformers Iam sure the right methods of reforming the Church cannot consist with that of perturbing the Civil state nor can Religion be justly advanced by depressing Loyalty which is one of the chiefest Ingredients Ornaments of true Religion for next to Fear God is Honour the King Nor will any men in Impartial times appear good Christians that approve not themselves good subjects And therefore you may take this for a Certain and infallible Rule that he who Fears Honours and Obeys God will Fear Honour and Obey his King likewise Which God grant we may all do for the honour of Jesus Christ to whom with the Father and the holy Spirit as for all other mercies so more especially for that we now celebrate be ascribed as is most due all Praise Majestie and Dominion now and for ever Amen FINIS * Pr. 1. 7. †Ja. 2. 10. a Eccl. 10. 20. b Exo. 22. 28. c 1 Sam. 26. 9. d 1. K. 1. 23. ‡ Ro. 13. 6. * Ro. 13. 7. †1 Sa. 26. 9. * 1 Pet. 2. 13. †1 Sam. 22. 2. * Semper in civitate quibus opes nullae sunt bonis invident malos extollunt vetera odere nova ex optant dio suarum rerum mutari omnia student rurbaatque seditionibus sine curâ aluntur quoniam Egestas facile habetur sine damno Salust Bellum Catil ‡ Catilinam luxuria primum tum hinc conflata egestas rei familiaris in nefaria consilia opprimendae patriae suae compulêre salust * Mar. 12. 7. ‡ 1 K. 2. 6. * Per illa tempora quicunque Remp agita vêre honestis nominibus alii sicuti jura Populi defenderent pars quo senatus auctoritas maxuma foret bonum publicum simulantes c Salust Beilum Catil Nu. 16. 3. ‡ 2 Sam. 15. 11. †Cum alii aliter sentirent dicerentque consultias sibi videriut non Catholica fides verum alia quaepiam belli causa obtendiretur tunc Norhumbriae Gomes at Ego inquit aliam nullam aut scio aut agnosco neque hominum opinor sed Dei Gloriam quaerimus Concerâ—atie Eccles Cathol in Angl. p. 46. ‡ 1 Sam. 15. 23. †Pr. 22. 24. * 1 Sam. 8. 7. a Jer. 12 1 b P. 1. 73. c Ps 92. 7. a Nu. 16 b 2 Sam. 15. c 2 Sam. 20. 1 K. 16. * Percussorum autem fêre neque trienaio quisquam amplius super vixit neque suâ morte defunctus est c. Sueton. inuitâ Caes sic Capitol de Gordiani caede * Iud. 8. 13 ‡ Iud. 6. a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 upon the Covent b Id. c. 20